In article <wHbpi.3395$7w.1456@trnddc05>,
"Paul M. Cook" > wrote:

> > wrote in message


> > expensive champagne. Let me ask you how a cheap wine WINS a
> > competition like this TJ wine did, if you can't get anything good for
> > under $20.00. I am not doubting you or causing a fight. Just wonder,
> > really, how a wine can win if it is only a couple of bucks but real
> > wine drinkers insist it can't be good. How do they finagle those darn
> > contests? >B.T.
> >
>
> Wine contests are all classified into varietals and price. You do not see a
> 2 dollar wine competing with a 20 dollar wine. The TJs wine was probably in
> the "under 5 dollar" category.

It was the California State Fair.

It was a blind tasting.

There were no price categories.

The wine was bottled by Charles Shaw, which sells mostly through TJs but
isn't part of it.

It was a chardonnay, competing against other chardonnays.